Passage Three It is such an odd relationship betweenpeople and pandas. We are so fond of them that when the Chinese government lenta pair to the San Diego Zoo for six months,the number of visitors increasedsharply,and the zoo sold over half a million panda T-shirts. When a panda wasborn in Tokyo Zoo in 1986, thousands of people phoned daily to hear a recordingof the baby’s cry. Although the reason we love pandas is noteasy to explain,animal scientists offer some plausible theories. They suggestthat parenting instincts are aroused by the common characteristics of babies：round faces and smalljaws. Pandas,even in adulthood,display all of these interesting features. Until recently, however, it seemed nearlycertain that this much-loved creature was destined to die out. Even now thegiant panda numbers fewer than 1000 in a shrinking wilderness in one small areain China，anuntimely end for the world’s most beloved wild species may still be avoidable.“It’s easy to save the panda，” says George Schaller，the New York Zoological Society’s panda expert and a world renownedzoologist. “All it needs is bamboo and peace.” Wild life experts have recommended somebasic steps to help. A detailed plan for the protection of panda has been drawnup by the Wildlife Fund,in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Forestry.The plan calls for a 70% increase in the panda preserve at a cost of $20,000,000 over five years. The plan was submitted to the Chinese government inAugust, 1989. After more than a year of debating and delay, the NationalPeople’s Congress voted in favor of the bill to fund the plan. Almost100 pandas are kept in Chinese Zoos and at institutions in other countries, butduring the past three decades fewer than 100 baby pandas have been born inChina. And the majority of these have died young. Despite such unfavorable circumstance,thegiant pandas prospects are better now than in the recent past. New insightsinto behavior, diet and physiology offer hope to protect and raise theseanimals more effectively. The most promising hope for panda’sfuture seems to be the increased efforts by Chinese government. They haveestablished 13 panda reserves and announced plans for 14 more. A farm has beenrelocated away from a panda habitat, and some 60 families living in one reservehave been relocated, costing the government nearly $ 370,000. Public concernfor the welfare of pandas has been heightened by stiff penalties for poaching—although it remains a serious problem. A few farmers have captured isolatedpandas and released them back to larger habitats.
Pandas are much loved by people for all of the following reasons except____.()
A、their baby-like features
B、their round faces and small jaws
C、their attractive cries
D、their inactivity
【正确答案】：D
【题目解析】：细节判断题。题干讲人们爱熊猫的原因。从第一段最后一句和第二段最后两句可排除“熊猫的不活跃性”，即D项。答案为D。
